In battle, Vikings would urge each other forward by yelling "SKOLL" to one another. By doing so, they were telling each other to keep it up so they could drink from the skull (and the top of a lopped off skull looks roughly like a..
Better to fight and fall than to live without hope. Travel far and wide and you should possess the secrets of man. There is more honor in accumulating little by little than in reaching for the sky and ending up flat on your face. It is better to stand and fight.
The myth itself does not say, but some speculate that Odin told his son that he (Balder) would survive the upcoming Ragnarok. Some say this could have been a prophecy from the Well of Knowledge, where Odin paid the price with the loss of his eye.
An Odin's Oath is an utterly unbreakable pact. To do so would bring shame upon your entire bloodline and the wrath of Odin will be upon you and all your descendants until the end of time. Because of this, Vikings go to great extremes to keep their oath to Odin.
The Old Norse name Hávamál is a compound of the genitive form of Hávi, which is the inflexionally weak form of Odin's name Hár ('High One'), and the plural noun mál (from older mǫ́l), and means 'Song (or Words) of the High One'.
Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up. Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way. Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge...but I would give far more.
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